Was working with a friend the other day and he held a club to the left side of my head. It forced me to think about keeping my head back on the downswing. This somehow helped to conserve my spine angle. It felt like the club was swinging through more under my shoulders somehow. Hard to describe but ball flight was much higher. Have to try this again and check with video. But feels more correct.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Hips
Got a new used R11 driver with a Fujikura blur 60 stiff shaft. So I'm working extensively on my driver swing. I just love some good sessions just swing, film, analyze, and repeat trying new things till the feeling is correct. It's the fastest way that I've found to improve. Otherwise I'm just hitting balls and I'm not sure if I'm reinforcing bad habits or not. Well all the faults of my iron swings are accentuated with the driver. So my usual standing up at impact was really noticeable. I was also really trying to keep my right arm bent at impact. I had correct several things. One was my swing path. It was still outside in so I had to really change it to inside out. I also noticed from down the line that the pros right wrist sort of snapped after impact down the line. Well mine just kept going through and didn't snap. Well looking at the video I saw that my path was part of the problem being outside in. So I hopefully corrected that. That then corrected my systematic fade and slices.
Then with the driver I just had my usual standing up, butt in a impact.
I wasn't making progress so I had to do some real rethinking of what I was doing. The feeling was completely wrong. Well I swung without a ball just too feel like what the position should be like. I actually got into more correct positions.
So the next part was doing it with a ball. I've gotten much better at this but it's still way off. Well somehow I got to thinking about swinging with my hips. For the first time really thinking about planting my right elbow on my right hip and then just rotating the hips. Also really using my legs to push off and turn. I hit a couple and with a slight tail wind the balls flew all the way to the far corner tree and fence. It still doesn't look correct but they feeling is once again way different from where I started.
Then with the driver I just had my usual standing up, butt in a impact.
I wasn't making progress so I had to do some real rethinking of what I was doing. The feeling was completely wrong. Well I swung without a ball just too feel like what the position should be like. I actually got into more correct positions.
So the next part was doing it with a ball. I've gotten much better at this but it's still way off. Well somehow I got to thinking about swinging with my hips. For the first time really thinking about planting my right elbow on my right hip and then just rotating the hips. Also really using my legs to push off and turn. I hit a couple and with a slight tail wind the balls flew all the way to the far corner tree and fence. It still doesn't look correct but they feeling is once again way different from where I started.
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